Ebook: Engaging adolescents: parenting tough issues with teenagers

A practical, skills-based guide to parenting teenagers through difficult issues, written by a psychologist with over 30 years' experience and based on accepted mediation principles. Offers a clear, method-based approach to resolve conflict and help teenagers better manage their own behaviour.;Engaging Adolescents: Parenting Tough Issues with Teenagers; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Part One: The Teenage Parenting Landscape; 1 Raising teenagers these days; 2 What teenagers can and can't do; 3 Mind maintenance for teenagers; 4 The nature of difficult behaviour in teenagers; Part Two: Using Scripts So You Don't Flip Your Lid; 5 Why scripts matter; 6 PASTA for teenagers; 7 Holding your nerve; Part Three: Case Studies and Worksheets to Use at Home; 8 Three serves of PASTA; 9 Advanced lessons in taming tigers; 10 Instructions for using scripts.